Small business and freelance operations
Freelance and local gig marketplaces
Two-sided marketplaces that match clients with freelancers, local tradespeople, or gig workers (and sometimes AI agents) to post, bid on, and pay for tasks and services, often with escrow, reviews, and no-commission models.
Built for: Freelancers, tradespeople, and clients hiring
Projects since May 04
122
Different builders
117
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-15%
AI is the core
5.7%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (70%), mobile app (20%), service (2.5%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Stallyo — Lets people rent out or book short-term parking spaces from each other.“I launched a peer-to-peer parking marketplace. Stallyo”
- Connects Indian creators and developers with brand gig bounties through a community upskilling and certification network.“I realized building a "Zero-Fee Upwork" in India is suicide. So I pivoted the infrastructure to a Community-Led Upskilling Network. Rip this model apart.”
- Proximate Marketplace — Runs a local classifieds marketplace with escrow-style manual payment capture and reputation-based trust without requiring identity documents.“Proximate Marketplace”
- Yojak — Matches people who need small one-off jobs with local people who have the skills to do them, letting providers set their own availability.“Built Yojak - a marketplace connecting people who need small jobs done with people who have the skill to do them”
- Aperlena — Aggregates public tenders from European official and national portals into one searchable index with email alerts.“I spent 3 months building a free search engine for European public tenders. Looking for honest feedback”
- Nexus Remote Hub — Publishes articles about remote work, freelancing, and digital projects.“I built a remote work blog from scratch with zero prior experience. Looking for feedback and first users.”
- Recommends freelancers to clients so freelancers do not have to bid against each other for projects.“Building a Freelancer platform”
- Matches film crew and actors who create profiles with producers who post paid film gigs, letting people apply for jobs for free.“I built a free hiring board for film crew. The signups work and the hiring does not.”
- ClientHunter — Finds fresh freelance client requests across community boards and job sites, filters out noise, and drafts replies for the user to send.“I built an app that finds freelance clients before the post gets 30 replies. Looking for 5 people to try it free and tell me what's wrong with it.”
- Sitterly — Manages bookings, scheduling, and client communication for pet sitting and dog walking businesses.“Looking for a sales focused co-founder for pet care software”
- sidehustleintel.org — Provides a searchable database of over 600 work-from-home side hustles summarized from YouTube videos.“Feedback on WAH searchable database of side hustles”
- ValueStack — Helps users turn their skills, experience and constraints into specific offers, target buyers and pricing ideas.“Selling my first website was a huge unlock for me”
- DAB Hand Trade Job Manager — Manages jobs, customers, quotes, estimates and invoicing for tradespeople.“Would love your opinion on app”
- PropAuto AI — Embeds a chat widget on luxury car and property sites that qualifies visitors by budget, location and timeline and books them via WhatsApp or email.“PropAuto AI - I built a widget that books luxury leads in 8 seconds”
- Bountora — Matches buyer-posted micro-jobs with AI agents that bid on them and submit deliverables checked against acceptance tests.“Bountora - A job board where AI agents bid on verifiable micro-jobs (alpha, feedback wanted)”
- airpost.network — Lets businesses rent out spare warehouse space to other businesses that need storage.“Made the Airbnb of warehousing”
- Lookspo — Matches clients to photographers by the visual style of an uploaded image, with listings for paid and TFP work and last-minute open slots.“Building a photography marketplace that matches clients by style, not just location — looking for NY/NJ photographers to join as founding members”
- NearbyCrew — Lets apps request real people to complete tasks like testing, checking, visiting places, or giving feedback, returning a priced mission for approval.“I finally made NearbyCrew usable from an API”
- BridgeLinkHQ — Connects Discord server owners with people seeking paid work as moderators, bot developers, designers, and support staff.“Title: I built a job marketplace for Discord community owners and the people who help run their servers.”
- RadiusDirectory — Provides a directory and classified listings platform with a marketplace and booking features.“Looking for hosting suggestions for my SaaS”
Most discussed
- humhumhum — Provides a shared online grid where solo workers claim seats, show live presence, and use focus timers and a habit tracker.“Vibe-coded a "digital café" for solo workers. Now stuck on the hardest part: getting people to actually show up daily.”
- Connects freelancers with verified job opportunities and holds client payments in a secured vault to ensure freelancers get paid.“Launching My Very First Startup But Don't Have Investment To Promote It!!!!”
- EaseAssign — Matches people posting small tasks with others who complete them for pay.“Built my first SaaS and got my first $3 in revenue”
- FedFinder — Surfaces upcoming federal contract, grant, and RFP opportunities from public government sources before they are posted, scores them against user criteria, and identifies contracting officers.“Built a SaaS that surfaces federal contracts, grants, and RFPs before they post publicly. $0 in revenue so far. What would it take for you to pay for this?”
- Provides an app for New Zealand tradespeople, with the specific function not described in the post.“Where do I find testers if I can't ask/promote any where?”
- skillswap — Lets people trade skills and services for other skills using a platform currency instead of money.“Money is the wrong unit for knowledge work. A favor for a favor. Time for time. Skill for skill.”
- Connects sole operators and small construction businesses with companies that need workers at short notice.“Any ideas on how to get people to get people on an app? open to any idea”
- Recommends freelancers to clients so freelancers do not have to bid against each other for projects.“Building a Freelancer platform”
- forever-loan — Provides a loan-related web app, as described by the author, whose design is being reviewed for signs of AI-generated code.“Can you check if my web app is look like vibecoded?”
- Forke — Matches developers with small paid tasks posted by startups and founders, with payment released after the founder reviews the work.“My friend and I are building an open-source platform where developers earn through real startup tasks”